Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!motcsd!lance From: lance@motcsd.csd.mot.com (lance.norskog) Newsgroups: comp.object Subject: Re: Documenting OO Systems Message-ID: <3488@motcsd.csd.mot.com> Date: 26 Mar 91 22:58:18 GMT References: <9103070342.AA07462@.nextserver.cs.stthomas.edu.cs.stthomas.edu ..> <1114@tetrauk.UUCP> <271@orbit.gtephx.UUCP> <20106@alice.att.com> Organization: Motorola CSD, Cupertino CA Lines: 23 ark@alice.att.com (Andrew Koenig) writes: >In article jls@rutabaga.Rational.COM (Jim Showalter) writes: >> Ada, properly written, looks like an English language >> description of the processing being performed, with the >> added advantage that it also executes. ... >That was the rationale for Cobol too, in the 1950s. >It didn't work then either. "With this new Cobol programming language, there will be no more need for programming as a separate job description. Everyone will write programs. The boss will dictate programs to his secretary, who will keypunch them for him." - paraphrase from memory of some particularly ripe Cobol hype from a more innocent time Lance Norskog America is innocent again. It's so pleasant, don't you think?